Janus, the Roman deity of beginnings, whose two faces gave him the ability to gaze backward into the past and forward into the future, was the inspiration for the month's name when Caesar instituted January 1 as the first day of the year as part of his reform. So the idea that we almot had a different date for celebrating new year'
Around 2000 B.C., Mesopotamia saw the beginning of the first records of New Year's celebrations. This happened around the time of the vernal equinox, which is around the end of March. The name of the religious celebration in Babylon, Akitu, was derived from the Sumerian word for barley.
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